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Phonological awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and play with the individual and smaller sounds in words.

Phonological awareness includes the ability to hear and create rhymes, to say words with sounds or chunks left out and the ability to put two word chunks together to make a word. Most children who have difficulty in reading have trouble in phonological awareness.

Nonsense, rhyming, and word play. These are the hallmarks of early childhood songs, rhymes, poetry and picture book language. They are also aspects of phonological awareness, an important early literacy skill.  Every time you share a nursery rhyme or fingerplay, play word games, or read-aloud a picture book with rhyming language, you're helping your child get ready to read!

 Featured Children's Books for Building Phonological Awareness:

April is National Poetry Month: Share some poetry with a child!

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 Featured Children's Music for Building Phonological Awareness:

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 Online Resources:

• Pre-Reading Games
  Ideas for word games just right for 3, 4, and 5 year olds from Family Education.com.
  
• Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
  Forget the words to childhood nursery rhymes? Zelo.com provides the words and history of classic Mother Goose rhymes.
• Nursery Rhymes, Lyrics, Origins and History
  This site from the UK contains the lyrics and history to the most popular and even rare nursery rhymes of childhood.
• Songs that Teach Phonological Awareness
  From Songs For Teaching - an online commercial source for using music in education. Download clips of various songs that work well for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness.
  

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